to implementation mechanisms. This means there should be clear monitoring mechanisms put in place to monitor the national dialogue processes also. Reflections: Zimbabwe’s National Dialogue Design Zimbabwe’s attempts to facilitate a national dialogue have begun with both high hopes and low expectations. Following countrywide protests and their subsequent repression by state security agents led by the country’s defence forces, the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) initiated a national dialogue process beginning by meeting diverse stakeholders “to create space for national conversations aimed at achieving social, economic and political transformation.” The NPRC’s initiative centrally sought to establish a framework for national dialogue. However, the government of Zimbabwe also mooted its own national dialogue initiative beginning with the interparty meeting held on the 6th of February 2019 at the President’s Official Residence. The dialogue brought together nearly 22 heads of political parties who contested in the 2018 harmonised elections. However, Nelson Chamisa the leader of the largest opposition party (MDC-Alliance) snubbed the dialogue citing the inappropriateness of the venue, the legitimacy of President Mnangagwa as the convener and the dialogue’s biases towards elections. Among the opposition parties that attended, some labelled their counterparts as cheer leaders walking the government’s talk while a few demanded the tabling of various developmental issues including economic turnaround strategies, an end to human rights abuses, electoral reforms and the return to rule of law. The Churches, through the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), have also started the national dialogue conversation by creating platforms that shapes the discourse from diverse sectoral and structural angles. The ZCC has already facilitated a broad-based dialogue bringing together political 5